To do list

Written June 16th

There is not much about home that I am looking forward to. I suppose I miss the comfort of my family and the security of having an income.. Especially since I am spending so much money here. I just feel like it’s going to be so difficult to go back. I can’t live life the same way I was before I came here. Perhaps I need different friends. Of course I love the ones I have now but there are people in my life that I just don’t need to have around. Honestly before coming here I assumed that I would become so close to the other girls from the project on this trip but that really hasn't happened. I’ve hardly spoken to any of them and that’s ok, but I’m a bit surprised by that. I think I made the assumption that we would all be like-minded people with similar intentions who would become best friends but I’ve discovered that that really isn’t the case. Once again things have ended up not as they originally seemed. I am so grateful for the project and so glad I got to come here and have this experience but I don’t think that it was the Uganda Project itself that actually made it so worthwhile for me. Yes, it’s what got me here, but it’s not what determined my experience. 

I feel like I need to make a list of things to do once I’m home. There are so many things I want to do and I can hardly keep them straight. And if I can occupy my time then maybe I will stay sane. If I go back home and just work my meaningless job all summer I will actually shrivel up and die. My soul will deflate. And I can’t let that happen. I’ll make the list now because I need to get excited about something.


Things I need to do once I am home:

- Go to Kelowna
- Look into volunteering!
- Exercise
- Bikrams!
- Make money
- Pay off my debts (hence the making money)
- Go to Roosters (this one is a bit random but totally necessary)
- Go camping - as much as possible!
- Learn to ride a motorcycle
- Get a motorcycle license
- Tie dye some clothes
- Go to Birch Bay


Challenge accepted.